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College English Association-Caribbean Chapter (CEA-CC)

Annual 2012 Conference: 23-24 March 2012

“On exile and its variations”

University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo

Deadline extended: December 28, 2011

The College English Association—Caribbean Chapter, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English, welcomes proposals for presentations (20-minute papers) for our 2012 annual conference.

We look forward to papers that examine the condition of exile through its varied representations in any literature and in any genre.

Themes may include, but are not restricted to:

the aesthetics of exile, the politics of exile, ethnicity and exile, ethnic literature in exile, nation/homeland and exile, exile and return, exile and trauma, exile and its discontents, exile and transgression, the pleasures of exile, women and exile, exile and the body, exile and language, the diaspora(s),and transnationalism(s).

Please send 200-250 word proposal as part of a text message to cea.cc.conference@gmail.com by 28 December 2011.

For more information, please visit:

http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc/